Regulations:
Finalized Wage Index Fix Falls Short
Published on Fri Jul 29, 2022
5% cap should be lower, hospice reps maintain. Providers’ pleas to expand the protection against wage index swings and to make that protection retroactive have fallen on deaf ears. So indicates the 2023 final hospice payment rule released on July 27. In its April proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed to cap any wage index decreases [...]
